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Paperback: 432 pages
Author: Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
Publisher: For Dummies; 3 edition (November 6, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 047004523X
ISBN-13: 978-0470045237

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Chapter 1: So You Want to Know More about Sex

Sex. Once you’re under its power, you’re a captive for life. It starts when you’re young. When you’re a teenager and your hormones are surging, almost everything you do is connected to sex in one way or another. And although your sexual voltage goes down a notch or two as you get older, many of your daily activities are still influenced by sex. ...

Table of Contents:
Introduction.
Part I: Getting Ready for Sex.
Chapter 1: So You Want to Know More about Sex.
Chapter 2: Tuning the Male Organ.
Chapter 3: Demystifying the Female Parts.
Chapter 4: Courtship, Marriage, and Commitment: Getting to Yes.
Chapter 5: It’s All about Control: Contraception and Sex.
Chapter 6: Growing Up Fast: The Challenges of the Teen Years.
Part II: Doing It.
Chapter 7: Foreplay: Revving Up Your Engines.
Chapter 8: Intercourse: Coming Together for the First Time.
Chapter 9: Changing Positions: Variations on a Theme.
Chapter 10: Going for the Big O.
Chapter 11: Afterplay: Embracing the Moment.
Chapter 12: Spicing Up Your Sex Life.
Part III: Different Strokes.
Chapter 13: Enjoying Oral Sex.
Chapter 14: Savoring Solo Play and Fantasy.
Chapter 15: Keeping Up with Cybersex and Other Hot Stuff.
Chapter 16: Celebrating Same-Sex Relationships.
Chapter 17: Conquering the Challenges of Mature Sex.
Chapter 18: Thriving Sexually with Illness or Disability.
Part IV: Having A Healthy Sex Life.
Chapter 19: What You Can Catch and How to Prevent It.
Chapter 20: Erectile Dysfunction and Other Male Sexual Problems.
Chapter 21: Low Libido and Other Female Sexual Problems.
Chapter 22: Avoiding Sexual Relationship Pitfalls.
Chapter 23: Sex and the Law.
Chapter 24: Teaching Your Children about Sex and Keeping Them Safe.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 25: Ten Dumb Things People Believe about Sex.
Chapter 26: Ten Tips for Safer Sex.
Chapter 27: Ten Things Women Wish Men Knew about Sex.
Chapter 28: Ten Things Men Wish Women Knew about Sex.
Chapter 29: Ten Tips for Truly Great Lovers.
Appendix A: Step into My Office.
Appendix B: Terrific Resource.
Index.

About the Author
Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer is a psychosexual therapist who helped pioneer the field of media psychology with her radio program, Sexually Speaking, which first aired in New York in 1981. Within a few years, she had built a communications network to distribute her expertise that included television, books, newspapers, games, calendars, home videos, and computer software.

Dr. Westheimer studied psychology at the Sorbonne in Paris, received her Master’s Degree in Sociology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School of Social Research and her Doctorate of Education (EdD) in the Interdisciplinary Study of the Family from Columbia University Teacher’s College. Working at Planned Parenthood prompted her to further her education in human sexuality by studying under Dr. Helen Singer Kaplan at New York Hospital–Cornell University Medical Center. She later participated in the program for five years as an adjunct associate professor. She has also taught at Lehman College, Brooklyn College, Adelphi University, Columbia University, and West Point.

She is currently an associate fellow at Calhoun College at Yale University, where she teaches a class on the family, a fellow at Butler College at Princeton University, where she teaches a class on the Jewish family in the Department of Judaic Studies, and an adjunct professor at New York University.

Dr. Westheimer is a fellow of New York Academy of Medicine and has her own private practice in New York. She frequently lectures around the world, including at universities, and has twice been named “College Lecturer of the Year.” She has received honorary doctorates from Hebrew Union College—Institute of Religion, Trinity College, and Lehman College, as well as a Medal of Excellence from Columbia Teacher’s College.

Dr. Westheimer has written 31 books. Some of the others include Dr. Ruth’s Encyclopedia of Sex, Dr. Ruth’s Sex After 50, The Art of Arousal, The Olive and the Tree: The Secret Strengths of the Druze, and Rekindling Romance For Dummies. And Dr. Ruth can be found on the Web at www.drruth.com.

Pierre A. Lehu has been Dr. Ruth’s “Minister of Communications” for more than 25 years. He has co-authored 13 books with her.

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